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Ferry Boender

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X.org enters Debian Unstable

Wednesday, July 13th, 2005

X.org has finally entered Unstable (Sid) version of Debian. It’s been available for testing from people.debian.org before. I recently – yesterday as a matter of fact – installed it from there, since it wasn’t available from the main debian archives yet, and everything worked rather nicely. This is also the first X server I’ve ever gotten hardware acceleration working on. I’m not sure whether that has anything to do with my hardware or the fact that X.org is just a lot better. Now I just need to get my fonts working again. I hate fonts under GNU/Linux.

Anyway, X.org can be installed by removing the xserver-xfree86 package and installing xserver-xorg.

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